To:N. A. UGLANOV

Written:Written on October 15, 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeUglanov:

Iam sending this to you and Komarovsecretly.

Bearin mind that this has been decidedbeforethe
arrival of the commission of Kamenev + Orjonikidze +
Zalutsky andindependentlyof them. The Petrograd Gubernia
Cheka is no use, it is not up to the mark, it is not clever.
We have to find better
men.[1]

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]Writtenon an extract from the minutes of the Politbureau of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee of October 14, 1921, on the
Petrograd Gubernia Cheka. Having heard I. S. Unschlicht’s report
about the unsatisfactory composition of the Petrograd Gubernia
Cheka, the Politbureau decided: “To authorise Comrade
Unschlicht, together with the Orgbureau, to submit for approval
to the Politbureau, within three clays, a list of candidates for
heads of the Petrograd Cheka” (Central Party Archives of the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).

Aboutthe Kamenev, Orjonikidze and Zalutsky commission seeCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 53, Document
361.